Alex Butler

Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry (Forthcoming Article) - Captive finance subsidiaries create a channel for trade policy to affect consumer credit. Examining the impact of the Trump administration’s metal tariffs on captive automobile...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry" by Kristine W. Hankins, Morteza Momeni, and David Sovich. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Fascinating. I had no idea this was a thing.

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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I've been waiting for Chupacabra. Easily confused with chalupa, but not more than once.

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If we entered a recession in 2022, and without resolving that recession entered another in 2024, does that mean we are on double-secret recession?

I heard he got a B+ in Real Analysis

At least we will still have BS

My avg class size is ~50. Can confirm it is not ideal.

Get a B+ in Real Analysis.

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts “We will, for the foreseeable future, have to be smaller – and do our work with fewer people.”

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts www.wbtw.com/news/state-r...

Occupied.

The Magnificent Dozen (they got a partial exemption)

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

Fair enough. Perhaps then it is endogenous that I have so few followers. 🥲

Lol. Referee #2 would like a word.

When it rains it pours.

A+

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Cake? On Pi Day?

They’re good dogs, Knotta.

It’s Lent…no better time to give up!

Personally, I gave up self-deprivation last year. This year I am giving up hope.

All those fat-cat academics with their billions in textbook money, using their power and greed to enrich themselves while screwing over the poor not-at-all-oligopolistic publishing houses.

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If you are looking for investors in your chicken thing, hit me up.

Jerk chicken is just regular chicken that imposes tariffs on it's allies.

No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding How Endowments Actually Work

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science.

Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

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I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

Epic. Totally worth all the espionagey stuff.